Atheist Experience 24.11 2020-03-15 with Matt Dillahunty & Don Baker
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
SHOW TIME-STAMPS
00:01:33 Announcements Regarding Coronavirus & the ACA
00:08:58 The Coronavirus & the People Taking Advantage of It for Money
00:12:11 Failures of Christianity: Why Won't God Just TALK?
00:29:08 Tom - MO - Struggling Out of My Lutheran Faith (Doubting God)
00:53:01 CJ - NC - How Are You Feeling About Debating David Wood?
00:06:15 Hassan - CA - God is to the Universe as Zero is to Math
01:16:12 Luke - AZ - Why Aren't You Nihilists?
00:00:00 Caller - PL: Topic
00:00:00 Caller - PL: Topic
SUMMARY
In today’s show, Matt takes us through the steps the ACA is taking to prevent the spread of coronavirus locally, Don and Matt chat about coronavirus charlatans, and Don has a new Failure of Christianity! We have questioning believers from Matt’s old stomping grounds (near his old church, even!), discussion of debate tactics, God being analogous to zero somehow, and Matt turning an empty truck of gotcha around with a whole trailer full of GOTCHA! And that’s our show!
SHOW NOTES
Hi, folks! We’re in weird times with a pandemic turning its ugly head at us, so Matt starts the show by explaining what the ACA is doing. The tl;dr version: The ACA has issued Defcon levels regarding how many and which people we allow into the Freethought Library, and International Atheist Day events have been moved to online-only, as the Austin capitol has officially closed to the public.
Before we get into Don’s failures, we highlight people taking advantage of fear around the coronavirus. Jim Baker has weird silver supplements, Alex Jones has...anti-coronavirus toothpaste? What? And Matt Dillahunty has F BOMBS!
What’s this week’s failure of Christianity? Well, God keeps hiding from us! He won’t answer our calls, he seems to be answering a bunch of people’s calls with different information, and he won’t heal amputees! WHY?! https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/ (Also Matt puts his Christian hat on...and an atheist hat...and another hat.)
Our first caller shares some ground with Matt, as he lives near Matt’s old church! Tom has some questions, as he feels he’s struggling out of his faith, so he runs some thoughts by our hosts about how he’s deconverted so far (and whether the reasons are good), and what his current questions are. (He does something fun at the end of his call.
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| 1:03.0 | I wonder. I wonder. |
| 1:06.0 | You would think from that raucous noise that was coming from the other side of the glass that we had a full audience. |
| 1:15.0 | So thank you to the five people who are over there right now. Make it a let rack and that's awesome. |
| 1:20.0 | Welcome. We are the Atheist Experience. We're alive today. It's March 15th, 2020. |
| 1:25.0 | So that's how we seem weird to you. Like 2020 or do you just go roll with it? No, it's just feels weird to me. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. I'm I'm always shocked. It's like, oh, yes, we're it's not you know 1989 anymore. |
| 1:37.0 | Despite, you know, the the clothes that I am wearing. Yeah, we're different shirt today. |
| 1:42.0 | I was dressed by my girlfriend had to wear black Sabbath because how do you not? I mean, it's black Sabbath. |
| 1:49.0 | And here we are at the Atheist Experience live. I got a couple announcements to make. Thank you to everybody for tuning in. |
| 1:55.0 | We've got a full list of colors that we're going to try to get to as soon as we can. |
| 1:59.0 | But we at the last board meeting, basically we're talking about things that we needed to do related to coronavirus and you know, this global pandemic. |
| 2:10.0 | And oh, perhaps some of the fear mongering surrounding it or panic. |
| 2:15.0 | Yep. But we need to put forward sound policies and do the right thing. |
| 2:22.0 | And so we set up essentially five defconn levels. Defconn five is everything's normal. |
| 2:27.0 | Okay. Defconn four, which is what I moved us to the other day is all the locals and regulars who would normally come down and fill the building on the Sunday or do activities at the building and stuff. |
| 2:38.0 | Stay away. Anybody who's sick stay away. But if somebody made a special trip to Austin as these five people have done to come down, we're not going to turn them away. |
| 2:46.0 | They're spread out pretty well in the audience. They're keeping a distance and we are on fist bump at most protocols. People are washing their hands. |
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